Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27

Will D0 ueeCeO TO pay Lne current expenses
OF the state government and pnblic in
situations. Treasurer Lemeke announce!
| that he will call upon the counties tt
advance funds. One effect OF the ex
haustion Of the treasury will be the sus
pension of work upon all state institutions
| ]. a. Webb, the prime mover in the new
| whisky pool, has been making a tour of the
| distilleries in the West and Southwest
Dir. Webb is known as the Alcohol King OIL
the United States. He says that the
whisky pool has been formed, and tina.
there Is no doubt it can carry its objects into
effect. and that it will result in a great
benefit to the whisky men OF the country
All but Is per cent Of the distillers in the
Of these, he says, viii join in short time
The result will be to cut down the produc.
ton and advance prices.
Mrs Payne, aged 60, and her daughter,
aged 50, committed suicide together at New
York, and the fact was not discovered fo1
several days. until the stencil from the
addressed to a daughter OF Thurlow Weed,
one OF these said ssWe are both Of us-my
mother and insane and dread the mad
house. We want to be with our family.
Tell our relatives where we ie.'' Both la
dies had money in bank amounting to near
teacher. Their relatives live in Ohio.
The reports from the Manitoba harvest in
dictate large crop OF wheat, oats and barley.
It is expected that the province will export
from six to eight millions OF wheat this
year. Buyers are already in the market
and have started with quotations of As and
SO cents, butsfarmers viii be slow to bite at
those figures as they anticipate rise from
the failure of crops in other places. There
will not be a bushel of wheat in Manitoba
this year that will not at least average IS
pounds and be No. hard at that.
A furious hail storm on the Goth, did
great damage in Southeastern Nebraska
and Northeastern Kansas. a dispatch
from Atchison, Kansas says: Hail measur-
ing nine and ten inches in circumference fell.
The wind was from the north, and halt the
windows in the city on the north side of
glass will aggregate $4,000 or 5000. The
storm appeared to be general throughout
Northern Kansas.
The Bank OF London, Canada, has failed
It has subscribed capital Of $1,000, GOO, OF
which S22355S was paid up The billholders
will not lose heavily. The president of the
involved by the collapse Of other enter
prises in which he was interested, has left
the city and it is rumored that he took $685.
Geo Of the banks funds with him.
The Illinois state railroad and warehouse
commissio have summoned the railroad
companies to show cause why freight rates
in Illinois should not be reduced to cores
pond with the interstate schedules. The
hearing is set for Sept. /, when shippers and
freight bureaus viii also be given an OPP
portunity to show cause why reduction
should be made.
A number Of German Catholic priests in
the Northwest have been interviewed re-
garding the approaching convention Of
German Catholics in Chicago. They deny
that its purpose is hostile to the Irish Gle
ment in the church or that there is any ami
mostly existing between the German and
Irish Catholics as classes.
a sliding scale, which, it is thought, will
prove satisfactory throughout the coke
region, has been agreed upon between the
cookers and the Carnegie interests. Coke
selling OF $l.35 is taken as the minimum
For every advance Of 10 cents per ton the
wages OF all employees shall be advanced in
equal proportion. 8
Sheriff Kendall and his possee OF nine
were ambushed Thursday by the bellieer-
ent Utes near Glenwood Springs, Colorado
After hard fight they escaped with a loss
OF three horses killed and four men
wounded. The settlers are fleeing for their
lives, and the host1les are being reinforced.
The English steamship Madrid, which
sailed from Philadelphia May IS for London,
via Bull River, S. O., where she loaded q
cargo Of phosphate rock, has been given up
for lost, with all on board. She was com
manded by Capt. Matthew Carson, who
had with him a crew of twenty five men.
3. Mitchell, Vance & Co., the largest gas
fixture manufacturing house in the country
with capital Of 81 200, 600, have suspended
at New York. Dennis G.. Wilcox the presi.
dent OF the company committed suicide by
shooting owing to losses in stocks, grain &c.
It is said the company is solvent.
At New York City, the wife Of ex-United
States Judge Richard Busteed has applied
for divorce, alleging adultery. The ex
judge and famous lawyer is about rs years
old and Mrs Busted is nearly as old. Mr.
Busted is said to be very i'll as the result
Of his domestic troubles.
Gso1ge BARTLETT and wife were driving
to Van Vert, Ohio, with q double team
The horses ran away and Mrs Bartlett was
thrown from the wagon and instantly
killed. Mr.. Bartlett received fatal injuries
At Austin, Ark, Dudley and osca,
Adams, brothers, were digging well and
gas accumulated therein. The men outside
threw shovel OF fire into it, when it ex
ploded killing both brothers instantly.
An express train on the New York Sc New
Haven r. r., struck carriage containing
man, boy and two ladies, at crossing i've
miles from New Haven. ALI four were
killed.
John W. Mackay in an interview denied
that he had been specializing in wheat q
that the Bank Of Nevada was in shakJ
condition. {
The strike at the Lockwood mile I,